Rural Spotlight

March 5, 2026

Webinar: How OHSU Reclaimed 25+ Weekly Hours in Staffing Coordination Across 53 ORs, March 18

Perioperative services generate significant hospital revenue, yet many organizations still rely on manual coordination, fragmented data and limited visibility into staff experience to make staffing decisions.

Oregon Health & Science University faced this reality across 53 operating rooms. Leaders encountered reactive adjustments, time-intensive coordination and inconsistent team assignments that constrained staffed room utilization.

In this webinar, OHSU perioperative leaders share how they transitioned to a data-driven staffing model – reclaiming more than 25 hours per week previously spent on coordination while strengthening operational performance.

By increasing visibility into clinician experience and applying predictive analytics to guide assignments, the team reduced last-minute changes, improved team consistency and expanded cross-training opportunities.

Attendees will learn:

• How OHSU reclaimed 25-plus hours per week from manual staffing coordination,
• Why visibility into staff experience improves assignment accuracy,
• How predictive analytics reduced last-minute staffing changes, and
• What drove a 5% increase in staffed room utilization and a 30% improvement in cross-training opportunities.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, March 18, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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March 5, 2026

Webinar: How Health Systems are Scaling Leader Standard Work on the Frontline, March 19

Leader Standard Work provides a proven operating model for consistently aligning leader behaviors around what matters most – standardized communications, leader rounding, etc. – but has historically been difficult to scale.

In this session, nursing executives from UNC Health and Boston Medical Center will share real-life examples of what it takes to make leader standard work practical and sustainable, with an emphasis on culture, change management, and technology.

Learning Points:

• Understand how leader standard work can drive employee engagement, patient experience, leader efficiency, and more.
• Learn how technology helps health systems operationalize and scale consistent leader behaviors, and
• Gain a practical framework for operationalizing leadership best practices across departments.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, March 19, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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March 5, 2026

Webinar: Real-time Pay as a Retention Tool: Building Support, Alignment and Adoption, March 19

More healthcare workers are living paycheck to paycheck than ever before. Real-time pay isn’t just another perk to add to a benefit list. It’s a way to show your team you understand their reality and you’re doing something about it.

This session is for leaders who want to explore how giving people access to their earned pay can actually move the needle on retention and recruitment. This webinar will talk through building support across your organization and creating a rollout that people actually use. Leaders from Naples Comprehensive Health, DailyPay and Lee Health discuss how they evaluate retention investments, align stakeholders across departments and focus on outcomes that matter.

What you’ll takeaway:

• A solution to a real problem:
  • Your frontline teams are stressed about money. Real-time pay addresses that directly, which means better retention and engagement.
• Getting everyone on board:
  • Get HR, finance, payroll, union leadership, and operations aligned early on the non-negotiables:
    • data security,
    • employee costs,
    • payroll integration,
    • communication ownership,
    • and success metrics.
• Making it stick:
  • The launch is just the beginning. Drive adoption through trusted channels (town halls, managers) with messaging about control, flexibility, and peace of mind.
• The right partner makes all the difference:
  • Work with a vendor who stays engaged post-launch to drive enrollment and sustain results.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, March 19, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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March 5, 2026

Webinar: Making the Case for Virtual Nursing: What Leaders Measure and Why, March 23

Hybrid nursing programs are gaining momentum but securing alignment across nursing, finance, and operations remains a challenge.

In this webinar, senior healthcare leaders will share how they build the business case for virtual nursing programs and gain buy-in from executive teams and frontline leaders. The discussion will focus on how organizations evaluate vendors objectively, define the right success metrics, and demonstrate ROI beyond virtual nurse productivity alone.

Topics include:

• Staffing models,
• Budget neutrality,
• Qualitative and quantitative performance measures, and
• How leaders assess impact on bedside workload, RN burnout, and retention.

Attendees will leave with practical guidance on how to frame value, address concerns, and move hybrid nursing initiatives from proposal to approval.

Cost: Free

When: Monday, March 23, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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March 5, 2026

On-Demand Webinar: What New Hypertension Thresholds Mean for Pregnancy Care Teams

Hypertensive disorders remain a leading contributor to maternal morbidity, yet blood pressure management during pregnancy and postpartum care continues to evolve.

The release of the 2025 American heart Association and American College of Cardiology blood pressure guidelines introduces updated thresholds and recommendations that directly affect how clinicians identify risk, monitor patients and plan follow-up care. Without a clear understanding of these changes, care teams may struggle to align practice across obstetrics, nursing and cardiology.

This Becker’s Healthcare webinar addresses these challenges head-on. Featured speakers include maternal-fetal medicine, nursing and cardiovascular research experts from Valley Health System, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Emory University and University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Key takeaways include:

• How hypertension definitions and thresholds have evolved,
• Implications for pregnancy and postpartum blood pressure management,
• Strategies to strengthen hypertension surveillance across care transitions, and
• Ways to support long-term maternal cardiovascular health.

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March 5, 2026

On-Demand Webinar: Beyond Basis Points: What Actually Drives ROI in Healthcare Payment Programs

Healthcare finance leaders are being pitched on rebate upside. But many programs underperform not because the math was wrong, but because adoption never materialized.

This session breaks down what drives ROI in B2B payment programs and how leading healthcare finance teams are turning accounts payable into a strategic revenue contributor.

Learnings include:

• A CFO-ready ROI model that goes beyond basis points and merchant matches,
• The three supplier acceptance requirements that determine enrollment success, and
• A sis-by-side comparison of self-service, basic-assisted and full-service support models.

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